OKAVANGO AND THE SOURCE OF LIFE, exploring Africa's lost headwaters

222pp., 4to., colour illus., maps, hardback, d.w., National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2026

ISBN: 9781426224072

 Foreword by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. 

This lavishly illustrated book follows explorer Steve Boyes as he leads the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, mapping the flow of water from little-known lakes and springs in the Angolan Highlands to the vast Okavango Delta.

Steve Boyes is a South African biologist and ecologist, a National Geographic Fellow, a TED Senior Fellow, director of the decade-long Okavango Wilderness Project and scientific director of the Wild Bird Trust. He lives in Paarl.